Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, with its flashing lights and dance music, attracts a big TV audience every year as millions tune in to gawk at leggy models strutting down the runway in lingerie.

But this year, the show—which was shot Thursday in New York and will air nationally in December—may take on even more importance. Analysts say the TV spectacle will play a critical role in rekindling consumers' desire to spend on lingerie, which was hit hard during last year's recession.

Enjoy a peek behind-the-scenes and the runway.

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Posted Nov 2009 by Oliver Quillia

Model Eniko Mihalik compares her make up to printed look attached to mirror.

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Model Isabeli Fontana has some Blackberry time during hair styling.

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A model prepares backstage before the big event.

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Brazilian models Alessandra Ambrosio and Ana Beatriz Barros shine for a photo op.

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All hands on model Izabel Goulart.

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Model Marisa Miller meets the press.

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Model Candice Swanepoel and a stylist work out the details.

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Model Alessandra Ambrosio opens the show with pink neon.

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Models Marisa Miller (l.) and Caroline Trentini (r.) walk down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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Show host Heidi Klum struts down the runway - just 6 weeks after giving birth to daughter Lou Samuel.

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Models Lyndsey Scott (l.) and Tatiana Kovylina (r.) walk down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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Pop music superstars, Will.i.am, Taboo, Fergie and apl.de.ap. of Black Eye Peas perform one of several songs throughout the show.

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Models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (l.) and Lindsay Ellingson (r.) walk down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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Model Caroline Trentini walks down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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Two models adorn two different styles of the symbolic Victoria's Secret angel wings.

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One of several acts interspersed throughout the show.

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Keeping in line with the angel theme, model Aminata Niaria walks the runway during a spirited choir session.

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Models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (l.) and Doutzen Kroes (r.) walk down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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A balloon winged Erin Heatherton shows off looks from the Victoria's Secret Pink line.

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Models Edita V (l.) and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (r.) walk down the runway at the early show of the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. (Nov. 19, 2009)

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